He Died Escaping CRPF On The Day Kashmir Lost Special Status. Police Finally Admit To His Death scroll.in

The Jammu and Kashmir police have finally acknowledged the death of a 17-year-old teenager who drowned to death escaping paramilitary troops on August 5, the day the Indian government announced it was ending the former state’s special constitutional status.

The police have asked the Srinagar district magistrate to start inquest proceedings. According to a status report submitted by the police to the magistrate on December 2, he died after drowning in the Jhelum River, which passes through Srinagar. “It is prayed that on 05-08-2019, the deceased Osaib Marazzi aged about 24 years allegedly drowned in river Jhelum,” says the status report submitted by the Parimpora police station.